Taking the Right Approach to the Cloud to Impact the Business While Addressing Risks

Paul Trulove
Director of Product Management, SailPoint

Cloud Computing presents a huge opportunity for businesses to streamline their IT systems and cut costs. But Cloud Computing also presents as many challenges as it addresses, particularly around security and governance. Compounding that is the fact that in many companies, business units purchase or deploy cloud-based applications on their own without engaging the CIO or IT staff. From the business perspective, managers think they're simply removing the middleman from the process. In reality, they could be providing unregulated access to important data without understanding the larger security implications for the company. Many cloud applications do contain sensitive data and serve critical business functions, and should be managed the same as other enterprise applications. Organizations must ensure they centralized visibility and control over cloud and non-cloud applications and data. In this session, SailPoint will discuss how today's organizations can address security and compliance issues in order to reap the benefits of Cloud Computing.

As the director of product management at SailPoint, Paul Trulove drives product strategy for the company's award-winning identity management solution, IdentityIQ. In that role, he works closely with current and prospective customers to understand their business challenges and then partners with SailPoint's engineering team to ensure that IdentityIQ addresses them. In 2010, Trulove played a strategic role in SailPoint's entry into the provisioning market.

Prior to SailPoint, he served as a senior product manager at Newgistics and in various marketing and sales roles with Sabre, Inc. and Pervasive Software. He is an an experienced presenter, having spoken at key industry conferences including the CSO Executive Seminar Series on Identity and Access Management, the National Postal Forum and on several industry webinars on governance-based identity management and cloud computing.

He was also an adjunct professor at the M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University.